On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:55:02AM -0700, Robin Lynn Frank wrote: > " SA's scores are assigned using a genetic algorithm, to optimise their > efficiency and minimise false positives and false negatives." > > Okay, I just have to ask what is a "genetic algorithm"?
:) The short short version is that scores are generated using an evolutionistic process which takes the results of the public mass-check runs that are announced and evolves the scores to come up with "the best" results for the given input data. http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/ has a list of resources if you would like more info. :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
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